This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a year plagued by a deadly pandemic, people were more worried about climate change than contracting the virus that has killed almost 2 million people, a global study by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the U.S., millions of people lack reliable and affordable water, transportation, energy, and broadband access. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought these underlying infrastructure failures into sharp relief; for Americans who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has helped make the inadequacy of many existing systems obvious. We now see: How easily regimes uninterested in transparency can stymie international systems for monitoring and sharing data…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has laid bare many truths about our country’s racial health and wealth gaps, and gaping inequities in work and employment are at the top of the list. Low-wage…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Families, fellow educators and the general public have begun to see just how integral child care professionals are to a smoothly functioning economy, says Ashley LiBetti, associate partner of policy…
RAND senior physician policy researcher Mahshid Abir describes several hurdles to achieving herd immunity to COVID-19, including the politicization of the vaccine, political commentary surrounding the production and dissemination processes, as well…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The term working capital is traditionally used as a liquidity metric in the form of a dollar amount. In addition, many individual financial plans include having a savings account, often…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In New York, Texas, and a slice of the rest of the country where data is available, teachers and other staff where school buildings are open have higher COVID infection…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate disasters started early in 2020—and kept on coming. The catastrophic fires in Australia in early 2020 were a holdover from 2019, but they were soon followed by flooding in Indonesia, a super cyclone…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As Chicago, Illinois residents struggle with the economic downturn as a result of the coronavirus, the Love Fridge Chicago is bringing fully stocked refrigerators to neighborhoods struggling with food apartheid. According to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From Peru to Qatar, young changemakers from the UN Foundation’s +Social Good community are pushing for change even though 2020 changed our world. Here are some ways this global network…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s hard to imagine navigating modern life without a mobile phone in hand. Computers, tablets and smartphones have transformed how we communicate, work, learn, share news and entertain ourselves. They…